Garrido Canabal, who under Calles planned and carried out such conscience killing devices, had been sent to Russia to study the Soviet education system. Under Calles 90 percent of the churches, and all Catholic schools and convents were confiscated and closed. Only twenty-five priests were allowed to minister to the 1,700,000 people in the Federal District. Priests were banned from fourteen states, many being tortured and slain. All bishops were listed for expulsion and death. Typical of Socialist regimes, every excuse was used to confiscate private property, even homes where church services were held, or priests were hidden. Rewards were offered to those who would report such "criminal people was being shed. The savagery against those who protested v was such that on one occasion hundreds of aad 1 a4 a el women and children lay wounded or dying in the streets. When 10,000 students and 60,000 parents marched in protest to Calles' educational program, the United States Ambassador, Josephus Daniels, came to his aid with man." When the Mexican people rose up in arms against sacrilege, rape and rapine (the Cristero period 1926- 1929) and Calles forces were in danger of being overthrown, American combat planes were sent to drop 114 The Secret Side of History amendments were posted in Congress demanding their offenses." Through all of this, the blood of a gentle and devout American support and eulogies to "Mexico's strong